New Scottish Bloke

[Greigy]

Hi folks,
Just got myself a Mk3 GTi 8v (for nowt....story to follow). She's a P Reg with 72k genuine on the clock. There's a few wee rusty bits on the outside but nothing that can't be sorted easy enough.
I'm planning modding it a bit just to make it a bit more personal like, so up for some suggestion.

Had a look a round on here and there's an awful lot of bonnie cars.

This is not my first trip down dub lane, I had a Helios Blue Mk2 16v for 3 years. It was my pride and joy but I moved overseas so sold it on the proviso that when I moved back home a year later I would buy it back. A fortnight later however the dude that bought it off me wrote it off.

Anyhoo, it's good to be back behind the wheel of a Golf again

PS I joined another vw forum and posted this, but seems very quiet over there and nobody's speaking. As I said, I'll be doing some mods to my wee beastie in the very near future so I'll likely be asking a heap of questions like where do I get, and how do you do...etc etc

Cheers for now

[Greigy]

This is ma motor







Blank canvas as they say.....

[Cov golf]

Welcome along mate nice vw there

[Greigy]

Cheers mate, as I said a few rusty bits externally but on the whole a sound car.

[MelllsMk3]

Hi there, you're gonna have loads of fun in your new freebie, mines black no mods as all free time spent on the driving, just out of garage after a painful week of locating a front end knock, loads of new parts and she's rollin fast n hard again. Have fun.

[Greigy]

Right then, the story of how I got it fro free.

Last year I did the Scally Rally Road2Rimini which, for those who don't know is basically buy a car for £100 or less, tart it up and drive from Calais to Rimini across the Alps in 4 days. Well, as I said, last year I did it in this...



Great craic and would recommend it to anyone. Anyway, I was planning the event for this year and one of my mates had this wee golf which was just sitting in his garden (and had been for about a year). It used to be his daily driver but he was handed down an old 5 series from the father in law so the golf got left behind. It was at this point that I popped up and offered him £100 quid for the his Golf to which he agreed. He also said he would get it checked out at this local garage, get a pre mot check done etc. Nice bloke. The garage came back with bad news saying there was at least £800 quids worth of work to be done to get it through an mot.
My mate basically said if I still wanted it I could take it as he wouldn't be spending money on it to sell it. The next day I rocked up a his house with the car trailer and that, as they say, was that.
To fix it and get it mot'd cost in the region of £150-£200. All that was needed was ball joints, brake pipes front to back, a CV boot and a new back box. Needless to say I never did the rally this year. I couldn't bring myself to ruin this car. I will instead be hopefully restoring it's former glory whilst adding a few personal touches.

Cheer
Greig

[VR6_Wherry]

Welcome to the Forum

[The Mighty Elvi]

Hi and welcome.

Jonathan.

[GOLF_STU]

welcome along